“ Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. ”
- Eugene Field- Copy
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“ It's a kind of vast municipal fire station a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend. ”
- Prince of Wales Charles- Copy
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“ A monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend. ”
- Prince of Wales Charles- Copy
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“ There is a side of me that likes not only playing monsters, but also monstrous-sized parts. ”
- Alan Bates- Copy
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“ All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous or wrong, or deny to be possible. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. ”
- Wilfred Owen- Copy
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“ That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
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“ It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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“ But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ”
- John LeCarre- Copy
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“ Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's hurricane, whom all men delight to praise? A Machiavelli with a Boy Scout's exterior? A gross flatterer? A Talleyrand subtler than Khrishna Menon? A monstrous appeaser? Clean is the word for Hammarskjold. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping "homeliness" entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all "sentiment" is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called "the Public," the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
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“ You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime… ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. ”
- Octave Mirbeau- Copy
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